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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FRUMP

(To be sullen; C19: dowdy woman): from Middle Dutch verrompelen to wrinkle, rumple.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FRUMP

frump  [frʌmp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FRUMP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Frump is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FRUMP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of frump in the English dictionary

The definition of frump in the dictionary is a woman who is dowdy, drab, or unattractive.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FRUMP


bump
bʌmp
crump
krʌmp
dump
dʌmp
grump
ɡrʌmp
hump
hʌmp
jump
dʒʌmp
lump
lʌmp
nontrump
ˌnɒnˈtrʌmp
out-trump
ˌaʊtˈtrʌmp
overtrump
ˌəʊvəˈtrʌmp
plump
plʌmp
pump
pʌmp
rump
rʌmp
scrump
skrʌmp
slump
slʌmp
stump
stʌmp
sump
sʌmp
trump
trʌmp
ump
ʌmp
undertrump
ˌʌndəˈtrʌmp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FRUMP

fruitlessly
fruitlessness
fruitlet
fruitlike
fruitwood
fruity
frumentaceous
frumentarious
frumentation
frumenty
frumpily
frumpiness
frumpish
frumpishly
frumpishness
frumple
frumpy
Frunze
frusemide
frush

WORDS THAT END LIKE FRUMP

air pump
breast pump
broad jump
clump
fist bump
fuel pump
heat pump
high jump
high-jump
long jump
no-trump
on the jump
on the stump
parachute jump
refuse dump
the high jump
the last trump
thump
tump
vacuum pump

Synonyms and antonyms of frump in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «frump» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FRUMP

Find out the translation of frump to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of frump from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frump» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

frump
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

espantajo
570 millions of speakers

English

frump
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

frump
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحرفوش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Насмехаться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

frump
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নোংরা মহিলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

femme mal habillée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Frump
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

frump
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

frump
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

frump
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Frump
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ăn mặc lôi thôi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

frump
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्रँप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kocakarı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

donna trasandata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

frump
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

насміхатися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

frump
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Frump
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

frump
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

frump
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frump
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of frump

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FRUMP»

The term «frump» is regularly used and occupies the 85.207 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of frump
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FRUMP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «frump» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «frump» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about frump

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FRUMP»

Discover the use of frump in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to frump and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grandma Frump Kitty and the Raggle-Taggle Gang
Grandma Frump Kitty and the Raggle-Taggle Gang is the story of a motley crew of feral cats living in the backyard of a benevolent woman's house on W Street in Sacramento, California.
Barbara O'Donnell, 2011
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Ma Frump's Cultural Guide to Plastic Gardening: A Humorous ...
MARCIA MUTH is an American folk artist. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1919 and grew up in Indiana and western New York State. She received degrees from the University of Michigan and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Marcia Muth, 2012
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Until The Sea Shall Free Them
In 1983, the freighter Marine Electric ran into a violent storm off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
Robert Frump, 2010
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Evaluating Natural Language Processing Systems: An Analysis ...
Summary of FRUMP criteria, measures and methods During these times, FRUMP was run continuously in real time on United Press International news stories. On both occasions there were some 120 stories that FRUMP could have possibly ...
Karen Sparck Jones, Julia R. Galliers, 1996
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Retrieval and Organizational Strategies in Conceptual Memory ...
The FRUMP-CYRUS Interface In order to hook FRUMP and CYRUS together, there were a number of augmentations that had to go into both programs. FRUMP uses a knowledge structure called a sketchy script to hold the knowledge it needs ...
Janet L. Kolodner, 2014
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tumbleweeds
JUDGE FRUMP: Get a job! SNAKE-EYE: A job! (To Audience.) Dat's the most disgusting suggestion l ever hoid. (SNAKE-EYE ENTERS Nugget Saloon. As he does the JUDGE'S nonetoo-bright deputy, KNUCKLES, ENTERS RlGHT. He has on ...
William Surrey Hart
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IJCAI Proceedings 1979
A program, called FRUMP for Fast Reading Understanding and Memory Program , employs this approach to parsing. FRUMP skims articles rather than reading them for detail. The program works on the relatively unconstrained domain of news ...
Ijcai, 1979
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Semantic Structures (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar): Advances ...
As an experiment in integrated partial understanding, FRUMP (Belong, 1979] was developed. FRUMP was a text skimmer, “sketchy script” applier, and UPI news wire summary generator. That is, FRUMP had many shallow scripts in memory ...
David L. Waltz, 2014
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Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry Into ...
In understanding an article, FRUMP must select a sketchy script and then try to find occurrences in the article of the facts represented by the requests. Requests are in Conceptual Dependency format and contain unfilled slots. These slots are  ...
Roger C. Schank, Robert P. Abelson, 2013
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Strategies for Natural Language Processing
TABLE 5.2 Repeated Six-Day Frump Evaluation STORIES STORIES NEARLY STORIES STORIES SCRIPT CORRECT CORRECT MISSED WRONG $MEET 19 4 1 1 $ACCUSE 7 3 2 1 $WAR 22 15 4 2 $AGREE 16 7 3 4 $MAKE-RELATIONS  ...
W. G. Lehnert, M. H. Ringle, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FRUMP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term frump is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stealing the Spotlight, Broadway Sidekicks Chat About the Ups and …
Such is the role of the sidekick — they'll hunch, excrete bodily gases, dress like a frump and even push aside their own dreams, just to make ... «Playbill.com, Jul 15»
2
Jimbo's Mailbag - How to Make Summer League Better
Morris Frump was better than I thought he'd be. His third arm wasn't even a distraction at all. Brian Zettler did a good job of strapping it to his ... «Salt City Hoops, Jul 15»
3
Friday Fox Follies - The Trump Bump
It's an amazing and interesting time- when even the GOP realizes that Frump is an embarrassment. It's an amazing and interesting time- when ... «PoliticusUSA, Jul 15»
4
Military Analysts Warn That Donald Trump's Deranged Plan to Bomb …
Yes, Mr. Frump, let us continue to create another generation of ISIL by repeating the mistakes of the past. And by an amazing coincidence, prior ... «PoliticusUSA, Jul 15»
5
How Did I Miss That? Trump Piñata; Football Strikes Again
Cousin Ray wanted to know if the same publication would refer to Sanders's primary opponent as a “post-menopausal capitalist frump?” I can ... «Indian Country Today Media Network, Jul 15»
6
Transfer gossip: Man United want Thomas Muller to replace Robin …
One minute you're the belle of the ball and being courted by everyone; the next you're an unwanted frump. Robin van Persie, so recently Manchester United's ... «JOE.co.uk, Jul 15»
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You're never too old to wear a bikini (and other swimwear advice)
Extra flouncing equals instant frump factor. The same goes for excessive side ruching, which is guaranteed to add 20 years to your age. At least ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Silly Musings on an Even Sillier Presidential Election Spectacle
Trump! sounds too much like himself and like chump, frump, rump, grump, or the dumps he is receiving from NBC, Univision, Macy's, Serta, ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
Saturday Night (Flight) Movies
Knowing that it's on right now…er…back then…why in the world would anyone want to watch Steve Martin frump around with Charles Grodin in ... «Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, Jul 15»
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Celebrating the Divine Ann Blyth
But you can't because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in laundry! «Huffington Post, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Frump [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/frump>. May 2024 ».
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